Archive for the 'corruption' Category

Alexey Navalny – One man’s cyber-crusade against Russian corruption : The New Yorker, APR 4, 2011 by Julia Ioffe.

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

An excellent (as always) write-up from New Yorker about a rising star in Russian modern politics Alexey Navalny and the current state of corruption in Russia ( fake government contracts, kickbacks, etc). What is interesting to know (and I happen to ag…

Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? | Rolling Stone Politics

Monday, April 4th, 2011

“Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them”
About feds “enforcement” efforts for economic crimes. An excellent article (needs aprox. 30 mins to read)

kelemen-2007-C5-Silent_Corruptions.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Interesting paper about data corruption from CERN. Basically they did verify that when you write a file to a disk, it not always come back the way it was written. …. so …. you have been warned ;-)